كيف يأكل النصف الآخر؟! القصة غير المروية عن الغذاء وعدم المساواة في أمريكا

This important book blends poignant storytelling and fascinating scientific research into a captivating narrative (_San Francisco Chronicle_) to examine nutritional differences based on social class and nutritional disparities in America, highlighting how inequality begins at the dining table. Inequality in America manifests itself in many forms, perhaps most notably the way we eat. Through years of field research, sociologist and ethnographer Priya Fielding Singh takes us into the kitchens of dozens of families from diverse educational, economic, and ethnic backgrounds to explore how and why we eat the way we do. We learn intimately about four families: the Bakers, a black family living below the federal poverty line; the Williams family, a white, working-class family living just above the poverty line; The Ortega family, a middle-class Latino family; The Caines family, a wealthy white family. Whether it's worrying about the adequacy of kitchen supplies or whether there's enough time to prepare dinner before soccer practice, every family has unique experiences that reveal their own dietary restrictions and challenges. By diving into the lives of these families, Fielding-Singh reveals the limits of efforts that focus narrowly on improving families' access to food. Instead, it reveals how being rich or poor in America affects something more fundamental than the food families can afford: these experiences affect the true meaning of food itself. Filled with fascinating storytelling and groundbreaking research, as well as Fielding-Singh's personal experiences with food as a mixed-race, South Asian American woman, How the Other Half Eats pinpoints how inequality begins at the dinner table. Once you sit down at dining tables across America, you'll never think about social class, food, and public health the same way again.